Baba Suwe Receives Posthumous Honour At Humour Awards

Baba Suwe

Late Nollywood actor Babatunde Omidina, a.k.a Baba Suwe, has been honoured at the Humour Awards. The event recently took place on Sunday at the Eko Convention Centre, Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, and brought together comedians, skit makers and other entertainers from across Nigeria.

In a post shared on their official Instagram page, the organizers announced Baba Suwe as one of the recipients of a posthumous award alongside late Uche Ogbuagwu.

It simply read, “And The Humour Awards Posthumous Award goes to…

Baba Suwe
Uche Ogbuagwu.”

Other recipients at the event included Yaw, Peller, Dezny, MC Edo Pikin and Taaooma.

WOW.

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.

The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.

Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.